Posted on 01/18/2014 9:03:42 PM PST by huckfillary
One of my pet peeves is the term “free gift.” Whenever someone offers me a free gift, I ask, “What other kind of gift is there?”
“I still like Free Parking....
Yeah, well someone else payed for the lot, right?”
There used to be a lot of stores in downtown Tampa. I think there was always a parking meter, but the cost was a nickel or a dime. The price kept going up. Now there are no stores. Why would you pay $1.75 and then have to worry and watch the clock and maybe get a ticket? The mall parking is “free.” The difference is the city owns the streets and rather than take their cut just from taxes or fees they want a cut from the customer’s too. But the mall or the strip store is private and they make it convenient by putting the charge in the rent.
Yes, he wrote “payed.” Where were these people in English class? Just imagine, these people can read many books, articles, etc. and yet does not notice that the word is spelled “paid.” Damn.
Even the author of the piece has no concept of the spelling of “its” as a possessive pronoun and “it’s” as the contraction of “it” and “is.” This is something that I refer to in my tagline...to no avail.
Oops, I made a boo-boo. The “does” in the first sentence is superfluous.
Can you think of anything, other than non-compressed air, that is free?
They often pay property taxes, have to install and maintain the pavement, remove snow and police it too.
“It’s a free country”
Used to be...
“I am due for another ‘free’ electric wheelchair.”
You don’t get a free wheelchair from medicare. You pay 20% which ends up being more than it would cost if it were sold on the open market.
Case in point, my spouse’s (manual) wheelchair was “paid for by medicare 20 years ago. It was $1200, of which she paid $240. A wheel chair at Harbor Freight is less than $60, twenty years later. Somebody stole a lot of money, but it wasn’t my spouse...
Well, a lot of so-called "gifts" have strings attached.
Regards,
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